instead of using twitter to get out their messages, some are using it to go on the attack and insult this election season. >> one sample tweet, how about this? coked up stimulus monkeys. enough said? jim acosta has been tracking the campaign twitter wars and joins us now. and jim, it's getting ugly out there. >> it's getting ugly, and i don't think i can sum this up in 140 characters or less. if you use twitter, you know political campaigns are tweeting all the times these days. sometimes the tweets are positive and many times they are not. they are the latest form of attack ad and they can get personal. welcome to the world of hash tag politics. >> reporter: it was another viral moment in a vicious race. supporters of harry reid scuffling with backers of republican rival sharron angle at a candidate forum. even after tempers cooled, the fight was far from over. it had moved to twitter, where one of angle's campaign managers posted this video, the clip shows reid supporters shouting at angle, using less than 140 characters that angle staffer tweeted, check out the video of reid bots